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Recent CDI Collaboration Area Activity
Find out more about CDI Collaboration Area activity on usability, the USGS Digital Object Identifier Tool, a serverless platform pilot with the Protected Areas Database of the U.S., resources about the semantic web, two USGS data inventory systems, engaging stakeholders, and software policies.
March 11, 2020 CDI Monthly Meeting
The March 2020 Monthly Virtual Meeting will have three presentations from CDI funded projects on the topics of subsidence, biosurveillance, and invasive and non-native aquatic species.
February 12, 2020 CDI Monthly Meeting
The February 2020 Monthly Virtual Meeting topic is "Pangeo - a flexible open-source framework for scalable, data-proximate analysis and visualization."
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Community for Data Integration 2018 annual report
The Community for Data Integration (CDI) is a community of practice whose purpose is to build the U.S. Geological Survey knowledge base in data integration. This annual report describes the various presentations, activities, and outcomes of the CDI monthly forums, working groups, trainings, and other CDI-sponsored events in fiscal year 2018. The...
Hsu, Leslie; Colasuonno, Leah
Measuring sustainability of seed-funded Earth science informatics projects
Short term funding is a common funding model for informatics projects. Funders are interested in maximizing the sustainability and accessibility of the outputs, but there are no commonly accepted practices to do so in the Earth sciences informatics field. We constructed and applied a framework for sustainability drawing from other disciplines that...
Hsu, Leslie; Hutchison, Vivian; Langseth, Madison
Community for Data Integration fiscal year 2017 funded project report
The U.S. Geological Survey Community for Data Integration annually funds small projects focusing on data integration for interdisciplinary research, innovative data management, and demonstration of new technologies. This report provides a summary of the 11 projects funded in fiscal year 2017, outlining their goals, activities, and outputs.
Hsu, Leslie; Allstadt, Kate E.; Bell, Tara M.; Boydston, Erin E.; Erickson, Richard A.; Everette, A. Lance; Lentz, Erika E.; Peters, Jeff; Reichert, Brian E.; Nagorsen, Sarah; Sherba, Jason T.; Signell, Richard P.; Wiltermuth, Mark T.; Young, John A.